Problem Statement
M doctors are each to examine each of N patients, wearing gloves to avoid contamination. Each glove can be used any number of times, but the same side of one glove cannot be exposed to more than one person. Gloves can be re-used any number of times, and more than one can be used simultaneously.
Given M doctors and N patients, the minimum number of gloves G(M ,N) required for all the doctors to examine all the patients is given by:
- G(M, N) = M + N − 2 if both M, N ≥ 2
- G(M, 1) = M
- G(1, N) = N
- G(1, 1) = 1
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